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There are 20 Grade I listed war memorials in England, out of over 3,000 listed war memorials.In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a building or structure of special historical or architectural importance; listing offers the building legal protection against demolition or modification, which requires permission from the local planning authority.
The War Memorials Register (WMR), formerly the UK National Inventory of War Memorials, was founded in 1989 [1] to build a comprehensive record of every war memorial in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Based at the Imperial War Museums (IWM) in London, the database has
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) aims to commemorate the UK and Commonwealth dead of the World Wars, either by maintaining a war grave in a cemetery, or where there is no known grave, by listing the dead on a memorial to the missing.
War Memorial Cross, Beeston; War Memorial of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers; War Memorials (Local Authorities' Powers) Act 1923; War Memorials Trust; Welsh National War Memorial; West Hartlepool War Memorial; Winslow War Memorial; Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery
There are 137 Grade II* listed war memorials in England, out of over 4,000 listed war memorials.In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a building or structure of special historical or architectural importance; listing offers the building legal protection against demolition or modification, which requires permission from the local planning authority.
The following list is of the CWGC memorials to the missing of the First World War erected elsewhere, both in the UK and other regions of the worlds, limited to those that list more than 1000 names each. The total from the 'numbers' column below of those listed on these memorials is 138,062.
This is a complete list of memorials at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. [ 1 ] The primary memorial at the arboretum is the Armed Forces Memorial which lists all British military casualties since 1948.
UK National Inventory of War Memorials (online database listing all war memorials in the UK) War Memorials Trust (UK charity that gives free advice about and grants towards war memorial conservation) War Memorial Stadium (for list of stadiums so named in the United States)